2 Alaskan Brown Bears Get Into Marathon Brawl At Lake Clark National Park

Bear fight Alaska

Whenever we’re out in nature, we tend to only get to observe the beauty of it.

As awesome as that is, there’s always a much darker, more violent side to it that we rarely get to witness, but it’s the reality of it.

Hunting and fighting is a major aspect of survival for wildlife, and it truly is survival of the fittest. So, that’s why it’s always great to have people who witness moments like these, and capture the harsh reality of it all.

During mating season, we tend to see males get into brutal fights with each other, that at times can be a battle to the death, in an effort to assert dominance and prove that they’re a worthy mate to breed with.

We tend to see this most often with male bears.

With that being said, a wildlife tour guide at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in southwest Alaska was able to capture one of these wild scenes all on video, while guiding a group in the park recently.

In this video, you can see two Alaskan brown bears strutting around each other.

Next thing you know, they get into a brutal fight with one another. They go on for several minutes, until you see the one bear that appears to be much older than the other pin the other to the ground, continuing to bite and claw.

However, the younger bear doesn’t give up that easily, and continues to fight, but ultimately the older bear appears to have the upper hand.

Finally, they ease off each other.

The guide wrote in the caption:

“This is the longest, most intense bear interaction I have ever witnessed in my 25 years of guiding on the Alaska peninsula.”

Check it out:

Two Male Brown Bears Battle Over Whale Carcass

I recently got back from the lovely state of Montana, and while I didn’t run into any bears while I was there (probably a good thing), you get a first hand account of the vast, incredible, and humbling beauty this country has to offer.

And while Montana is amazing, it gets no more vast, incredible and humbling than… Alaska.

In this incredible footage at the Katmai Coast of Southern Alaska, we get to watch as two coastal brown bears engage in a vicious fight over a beached whale carcass.

According to Expeditions Alaska, two big male brown bears were laying claim to this beached whale carcass when some other bears came walking up to chow down.

That’s when all hell broke loose:

“These two large male brown bears had been strutting and posturing and peeing and rubbing, jaw clacking, and carrying on, generally chest-pounding, trying their best to intimidate one another, for near 20 minutes.

During this time, a few other smaller bears had come in and started feeding on the carcass, including this sow and her single yearling cub. One of the males came down and began to feed as well, but didn’t seem unduly concerned about the sow/cub on the other side of the whale carcass.”

But then, the female gets attacked:

“Finally, the second male came down, with that classic side-stepping strutting gait, and headed straight for the female. Her cub bails, and rather than follow suit, she gets defensive.

The power is pretty impressive, watch how far backward she goes each time. And incredibly deft footwork for her… if she didn’t maintain her balance, she’d have been in bigger trouble.”

But then, the other male comes to her rescue and it’s on.

The second male surprises the original attacker, but them seem to be well-matched for each other in size and power. They grapple like it’s a UFC fight, while the sow and her cub manages to get away.

Eventually, they’ve had enough and they separate, both looking pretty gassed from the tussle.

And we have a front row seat.

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